And then Tyrion tells the three masters that one of them must die for their treachery. Two of them choose one, who gets on his knees to beg for mercy. Greyworm approaches, and kills the two who were standing. Ok, so two died instead of one. Close enough.
Great episode! tons of surprises.
I was honestly expecting Cersi to stand trial and to actually confess her love for her brother and TELL THE TRUTH about the who’s son Tommen actually is!
Which would have revealed her son was not a Baratheon and thus not entitled to the throne. Blowing up the Sept with nearly all the nobles in it along with the Sparrows I never saw coming. The Sparrows alone I could have seen, but all the nobles that backed her future claim to the throne also? I think she will regret that in the end.
Cool stuff to come... remember the new Iron Island king has a horn that can control dragons and is in the process to building the largest fleet the world has ever seen. This should make next season interesting.
My predictions:
in the end Tyrion will end up happlily married to Sansa and be both hand of the kind and Lord of Winterfell.
Jamie will be the one to kill Cersi
John Snow will marry Daenerys.
Together John and Daenerys will defeat the white walkers.
Because Cersi and Tommen weren't in attendance, and the High Sparrow sent Lancel Lannister to fetch them. Lancel saw a suspicious child and followed him. While this is happening, Clegane is forcibly preventing Tommen from leaving for the trial.
Great show. Now we have confirmation that Jon Snow is Ice & Fire, Targaryen and Stark. I hate Cersei but loved her revenge...except for the death of Margaery. I was so sick of Tommen’s weakness that I laughed when he dove from the window. Little Finger is going to have to be dealt with soon as he now poses a huge threat to Jon’s safety.
I can’t wait to see how all of the new revelations play out in the next season.
The major point of the episode that was left out of your synopsis bears noting. Bran, now the Three Eyed Raven, goes back to the Tower of Joy where a young Eddard Stark finds his sister Lyanna close to death.
She whispers something to him that the audience doesn’t hear, and then “Robert would kill him”. Ned is handed a bundled baby as his sister begs him to protect and raise the infant. The camera does a tight shot of the infant’s face and then opens up on the face of...JON SNOW! Ba Da BOOM! Does Jon trace his Stark bloodline to the maternal side, leaving the obvious conclusion that none other than Rhaegar Targaryen is the babe’s father? Can we say, Aunt Dany? Why, yes, we can!
Poor Cersei, you better enjoy sitting on that uncomfortable chair while you can.
It was strange how Varys was in Dorne w/ Olenna and the SandSnakes, but then somehow managed to be back on a boat as Daeny’s fleet sailed towards.
Also, the promotion of female leadership by HBO seems a bit over the top ... perhaps timed for the upcoming election?
- SandSnakes, after stabbing their prince, declare that a weak MAN will never rule them again.
- Daenarys and Yara make statements about how their fathers were evil men and how its time for women to lead
- Weak leadership by all of the Stark vassals except for they young Mormont princess, who gives all of those weak men a well deserved tongue lashing.
Why would conservatives watch this lefty crap?
I don’t understand why so many people leave out the most important revelation long term to the story... The parentage of John Snow.
The either minimize it or like this vanity ignore it completely.
Long term this is the single most important revelation to the story and people get so tied up in the cgi and backstabbing the miss the big things.
Good recap, except I wouldn’t say Sansa gives LF a death stare when Jon is proclaimed King of the North. It seemed to me more like she was smiling and happy at Jon’s ascent, but then she looked at LF and a worried, almost frightened look came over her face because she knows how dangerous LF is, especially now that he’s been thwarted in his plans for the North.
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I am truly surprised at the amount of vitriol aimed at the High Sparrow on various conservative sites.
The man is essentially the Martin Luther of Westeros. He was working to reform the church, minister to the down trodden, and make the elites live under the same laws they force on everyone else.
I saw no hint of malice in the way he conducted himself. To me, he came across as a grandfather who understood that true love, sometimes requires stern actions and decisions.
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Wasn’t Cersi on Arya’s “list” of people who needed to be killed?
And if the prophecy says Cersi will be killed by her son, what if Arya wore Tommen’s face, or Jeoffrey’s for that matter? (She would be the right height.) Cersi is mad so would she lose it if her son appeared in a hallucination?
Notice that we are seeing a shift in royalty from males to females. Nothing better and bloodier than a cat fight!!
I was extremely pleased to see The Hound back in play in the prior episode. I can’t help by like that dude. He makes everything so cut-and-dry. :-)
Danaerys didn’t torch the entire fleet. She wanted to go kill everyone until Tyrion provided a better option where she would keep the majority of the Masters’ fleet for her own uses.
She made an example of one to show the others what happens when they break a negotiated agreement — strength through superior firepower.
Many more would’ve died and Mereen would’ve fallen to the Sons of the Harpy if Dany chose the vengeance route.
I just got through binge watching the first season...and Net Flix doesn’t have it! So, I’ll probably buy more. I’m hooked.
I guess I’m not very observant, but I just realized that not all ships in the final scene had Targaryen sails.
There were also ships in that scene with sails that had the colors of Greyjoy, Dorne, and Tyrell. The Dornish sails are fairly easy to spot, but the Tyrell sails (green with a large, gold flower) go by fairly quickly.
